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History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Complete and Unabridged
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Complete...

by Edward Gibbon

Diligence and accuracy are the only merits which an historical writer may ascribe to himself; if any merit indeed can be...

1776 222 ed.
Πολιτικά (Politiká)
Πολιτικά (Politiká)

by Aristotle

EVERY STATE is a community of some kind, and every community is established with a view to some good; for mankind always...

1492 224 ed.
Faust
Faust

by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

[FAUST, lying among grass and flowers, exhausted and restless, trying to sleep.]

1800 633 ed.
King Henry V
King Henry V

by William Shakespeare

Shakespeare wrote the draft of Henry V that became the First Folio text in the early summer of 1599.

1600 631 ed.
Ὀδύσσεια
Ὀδύσσεια

by Όμηρος

TELL ME, O MUSE, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy.

1488 1063 ed.
Poems
Poems

by William Wordsworth

Of the Poems in this class, 'THE EVENING WALK' and 'DESCRIPTIVE SKETCHES' were first published in 1793.

1807 372 ed.
Metamorphoses
Metamorphoses

by Ovid

The classics were the raw material of the English Renaissance; to write in the sixteenth century meant to engage in dial...

1479 491 ed.
Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost

by John Milton

This first book proposes, first in brief, the whole subject: man's disobedience and the loss thereupon of Paradise where...

1667 396 ed.
Lives
Lives

by Plutarch

IT is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidenc...

1564 323 ed.
Sonnets
Sonnets

by William Shakespeare

From fairest creatures we desire increase.

1609 646 ed.
Ἰλιάς
Ἰλιάς

by Όμηρος

AN ANGRY MAN-THERE IS MY STORY: THE BITTER RANcour of Achilles, prince of the house of Peleus, which brought a thousand ...

1505 1084 ed.
The Pilgrim's Progress
The Pilgrim's Progress

by John Bunyan

AS I WALKED through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where was a den, and laid me down in that...

1678 683 ed.
Moralia
Moralia

by Plutarch

PLUTARCH'S knowledge of Egyptology was not profound.

1500 211 ed.
Macbeth
Macbeth

by William Shakespeare

Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches.

1508 1866 ed.
Don Quijote de la Mancha
Don Quijote de la Mancha

by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

"THIS is the story that Miguel de Cervantes, Spaniard, published in 1605, which the world has been reading again and aga...

1600 1594 ed.
Συμπόσιον
Συμπόσιον

by Πλάτων

Apollodorus. In my opinion, I am not unprepared for what you ask about; for just the other day-when I was on my way up t...

1559 351 ed.
La Divina Commedia
La Divina Commedia

by Dante Alighieri

Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita

1472 1339 ed.
Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe

by Daniel Defoe, J. J. Grandville

I was born in the year 1632 in the city of York, of a good family, though not of that country, my father being a foreign...

1686 2420 ed.